Azure Engineer Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft Azure Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Microsoft Azure Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £524, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 60 66
Rank change year-on-year +20 +6 -7
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Engineer 10 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.92% 0.91% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.14% 0.98% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 6
10th Percentile £413 £383 £414
25th Percentile £425 £394 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year +23.24% -26.09% +9.52%
75th Percentile £613 £469 £634
90th Percentile £675 £488 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £425 £528
% change year-on-year +8.24% -19.43% +0.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 468 715 870
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.66% 92.50% 96.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 502 583
10th Percentile £160 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 40 35
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.10 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.31 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £28.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.88% +42.50% +14.35%
75th Percentile £22.91 £48.75 £24.94
90th Percentile £30.68 £57.91 £60.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%

Azure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured Azure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Engineer in Birmingham

Azure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Engineer in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Azure Engineer in Birmingham

Azure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Engineer in Birmingham

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Azure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Azure Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Terraform
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (30.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Replication
5 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
5 2 (20.00%) Project Management
5 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (20.00%) C#
5 2 (20.00%) .NET
5 2 (20.00%) Python
5 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Data Transformation
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines

Azure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (20.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) Data Science
3 2 (20.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (10.00%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C#
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Databricks